September 25, 1969
The photographs of Earth from space — from Apollo 8, from the Moon's surface — are changing how people think about the planet. I've been sitting with this.
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December 27, 1968
The trans-earth injection burn fired correctly and Apollo 8 splashed down safely in the Pacific this morning. They made it.
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Apollo 8
December 24, 1968
On Christmas Eve 1968, three American astronauts in orbit around the Moon read from the Book of Genesis. Before they read, Bill Anders took a photograph. He called out: "Oh my God, look at that picture over there!" He had seen the Earth rising above the lunar horizon. Earthrise. The…
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Apollo 8
December 21, 1968
Apollo 8 launched this morning and they are not going to Earth orbit. They are going to the Moon. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders are riding the Saturn V to lunar orbit. For the first time in history, human beings are leaving Earth to go to another world.…
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December 21, 1968
Apollo 8 launched this morning. The Saturn V worked. The translunar injection burn worked. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders are on their way to the Moon.
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November 12, 1968
NASA announced it officially: Apollo 8 is going to the Moon. Not Earth orbit. Lunar orbit. Borman, Lovell, and Anders will be the first humans to leave Earth's gravity.
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